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Members' blog for IoT product development and product and systems engineering from concept to disposal. Posts here are focused on, but not limited to, systems, complex systems, systems of systems, and sub-systems all the way down to embedded software.

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Systems Engineering Processes are… Crazy difficult! Why? So many people, so little time! So much regulation, so little control! So many teams, so little communication! Systems Engineering Processes are hard to define, and even harder to put in to practice. Many companies use tools like Excel, Visio, and Word to “model” the process. They put it on the wall. They put them in books. And they hope someone follows it. Process enactment can be a bigger challenge than process modeling. Regulatory demands increase the “process enactment”... [More]

At the end of last year, we had a great jam on agile systems engineering. This jam had some meaty exchanges and one of the best parts was the particapation of a few experts from our client base. I find these jams to be great channels for us to test out some of our practice leadership and thought leadership ideas and test them or refine them with semi-public peer review from savvy colleagues. I captured a few of my own positions in my blog http:// bit.ly/UtdfG6 during the first couple weeks of 2013. One of these topics, requirements... [More]